Ciudades (Jun 2006)
Zona metropolitana del Valle de México: megaciudad sin proyecto
Abstract
The metropolitan zone in the Mexico Valley settles the territory of three federal organizations: Federal District, State of Mexico, and Hidalgo, which causes difficulties to make a joint Planning. In order to understand how this territory is, an historical frame of the zone is related. The problems that its economy has suffered by the disindustrialization are explained. It has caused to a tertiary specialization of the city in two sectors: formal, and informal.The informal sector absorbs the unemployment of informal, but that generates poverty, delinquency and zonal differentiation of the city.